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It’s just JavaScript®️ May 24, 2019

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Jerod, Kball, Divya, and Nick share their initial impressions of GitHub’s recently announced package registry, what JS skills are trending in job listings, and shout outs!

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Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

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GitHub’s package registry

Our “coverage” of GitHub’s Friday afternoon announcement
GitHub’s official package registry feature page
Remember when we had Jeff Lembeck on JS Party?
Something strange is going on at npm
Nobody Predicted Microsoft 😬
FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition

JS job trends

Game of Frameworks: JavaScript trends of 2019
Engineering & design progression maps: progression.fyi
KBall’s megatrends post

Shout outs

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You don’t have to dress up May 18, 2019

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KBall, Emma, and Chris explain some things to each other like we’re five, bring stories of the week, and share some sweet pro tips.

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Gauge – Low maintenance test automation! Gauge is free and open source test automation framework that takes the pain out of acceptance testing. Less code, less maintenance, more acceptance testing. Gauge is a free and open source test automation framework that takes the pain out of acceptance testing. Gauge tests are in Markdown which makes writing and maintaining tests easier.
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Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Emma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

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ELI5

Stories of the Week

Pro Tips

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LIVE at ReactJS Girls May 14, 2019

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Emma Wedekind MC’d a live show at ReactJS Girls with a panel of 3 amazing women — Eve Porcello, Marcy Sutton, and Kate Beard. It was a great discussion covering the biggest challenges they’ve faced, how no matter who you are imposter syndrome occurs and never really goes away, ways to support and encourage under-represented groups and people to get into tech, and how to choose a topic when writing a talk.

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Gauge – Low maintenance test automation! Gauge is free and open source test automation framework that takes the pain out of acceptance testing. Less code, less maintenance, more acceptance testing. Gauge is a free and open source test automation framework that takes the pain out of acceptance testing. Gauge tests are in Markdown which makes writing and maintaining tests easier.
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Marcy Sutton – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Eve Porcello – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Kate Beard – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Emma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Huge thanks to ReactJS Girls Conference for allowing us to crash their conference and throw a JS Party
Want us to throw a JS Party at your conference? Send an email to editors@changelog.com to get in touch.

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When in doubt, log an issue May 07, 2019

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Nick and Mikeal catch up with Henry Zhu, the maintainer of Babel and host of the Maintainers Anonymous and Hope in Source podcasts. We discuss his path to open source maintainer-ship. We also chat about best practices for interacting with maintainers, while remembering that people are behind open source, and we talk self-care and avoiding burnout, culminating in a self-care repo being created to gather and discuss tips to care for yourself.

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Gauge – Low maintenance test automation! Gauge is free and open source test automation framework that takes the pain out of acceptance testing. Less code, less maintenance, more acceptance testing. Gauge is a free and open source test automation framework that takes the pain out of acceptance testing. Gauge tests are in Markdown which makes writing and maintaining tests easier.
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Henry Zhu – Website, GitHub, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X

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Fresh voices! Apr 30, 2019

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Jerod welcomes new panelists Emma Wedekind and Divya Sasidharan to the party! We get to know these two amazing ladies and then open up the conversation to talk about what’s on their mind. Divya broaches the nuanced topics of keeping up with the fast pace of the developer world while maintaining balance and Emma wants to talk books.

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GitPrime – Download GitPrime’s 20 Patterns book, a field guide to help engineering managers recognize achievement, spot bottlenecks, and debug development processes with data.

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Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Emma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Listen to this episode of The Changelog for more on Emma’s writing and mentoring efforts
The Heroines of JavaScript Trading Cards feature 3 of our panelists 🙌

Books!

Atomic Habits by James Clear
Start with Why by Simon Sinek
Malcom Gladwell’s Outliers
Refactoring UI by Adam Wathan & Steve Schoger
Blinkist is not a sponsor… yet! 😜
Or you can just learn How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
The Mythical Man-Month is a classic
As is The Pragmatic Programmer
The You Don’t Know JS book series
Professional JavaScript for Web Developers by Nicholas Zakas
Here’s Code Complete in PDF format
Learning JavaScript Design Patterns by Addy Osmani

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LIVE from React Amsterdam Apr 19, 2019

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KBall MC’d a live show at React Amsterdam with a panel of 5 amazing React experts — Kitze, Michel Weststrate, Mike Grabowski, Vladimir Novick, and Andrey Okonetchnikov. It was a great discussion of state management solutions and the future of state management in the front-end.

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GitPrime – Download GitPrime’s 20 Patterns book, a field guide to help engineering managers recognize achievement, spot bottlenecks, and debug development processes with data.

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Kitze – Website, GitHub, X
Michel Weststrate – Website, GitHub, X
Mike Grabowski – Website, GitHub, X
Vladimir Novick – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Andrey Okonetchnikov – GitHub, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Special thanks to React Amsterdam — the biggest React conference worldwide!
MobX
Hooks
GraphQL
Talk: State Management in the GraphQL Era
Observables in MobX
The Curious Case of MobX State Tree
Aven Cloud Framework
Logux
Xamarin
Flutter
Hasura.io
React Native Community
Vladimir’s YouTube channel with bootcamps

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Wow, Gatsby is a mashup on steroids Apr 12, 2019

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KBall and Jason geek out on the ins and outs of Gatsby. They talked through the fundamentals of working with Gatsby, the development process, and look into the future of Gatsby.

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Gauge – Low maintenance test automation! Gauge is free and open source test automation framework that takes the pain out of acceptance testing. Less code, less maintenance, more acceptance testing. Gauge is a free and open source test automation framework that takes the pain out of acceptance testing. Gauge tests are in Markdown which makes writing and maintaining tests easier.
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Jason Lengstorf – Website, GitHub, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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About Gatsby

Fundamentals of working with Gatsby

Gatsby Development Process

Future of Gatsby

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Refactoring script soup Apr 05, 2019

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KBall, Nick, and Chris dig into the various dimensions along which projects vary, dig into testing and best practices, and share a number of lessons learned from legacy projects.

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GitPrime – Download GitPrime’s 20 Patterns book, a field guide to help engineering managers recognize achievement, spot bottlenecks, and debug development processes with data.

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Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

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Ways projects vary

Testing & best practices

Legacy code & refactoring

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Bundle because you want to, not because you need to Mar 29, 2019

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Jerod and Nick are joined by Fred K. Schott – the main brain behind Pika. What’s that, you ask? An effort to make modern JavaScript more accessible by making it easier to find, publish, install, and use modern packages on npm.

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Fred K. Schott – Website, GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

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pikapkg.com is your one-stop shop for all things Pika
Can I use ES Modules?
Fred’s click-baity (but high quality) intro – A Future Without Webpack
The now-famous five.js package on npm
Also check out @pika/pack
There’s an rfc to integrate @pika/pack into npm

five.guys(); // '🍔'

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What kind of moisture sensors do you use? Mar 22, 2019

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We discuss the news (built-in modules, OpenJSFoundation, Lambda School stipends), chat about the internet of JS things, and finish up with one of our favorite segments: shout outs!

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Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

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News Roundup

Philip Walton KV storage and built-in modules
TC39’s proposal for a JavaScript standard library.
The OpenJSFoundation is official
This was first discussed on JS Party #48
Lambda School is giving $18k in stipends to select students
Co-founder Austen Allfred’s tweet with the options diagram
Austen will be interviewed on Founders Talk soon

The internet of JS things

Suz is working on making her plants chirp
Speaking of, check out Chirp
For more of the backstory listen to this episode from OSCON
She uses KiCad to design her PCBS
Here’s the YouTube channel which was the most helpful when learning KiCad
Nick built a Raspberry Pi powered photoboot for a wedding

Shouts outs!

Suz is stoked about GitHub Actions and has a blog post upcoming
Listen to GitHub Actions is the next big thing while you wait for beta access
Nick gives a shout to GitHub’s Suggested Changes feature
Chris would like to thank Jory Burson for all the awesome she’s doing
Jerod shouts out Turbolinks, Tmuxinator, and tree

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